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EcoTrans · Catalytic activity Enhanced meChanisms Of TRANSition metal decorated N-doped carbon by precursor acid treatment

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2022-09-01 → 2025-06-20
EU contribution
€224,934
Participants
1
Scheme
MSCA-IF

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Results in brief

Catalytic activity Enhanced meChanisms Of TRANSition metal decorated N-doped carbon by precursor acid treatment

I. Muhammad Abdul Qadeer, Xiaoxue Zhang, Muhammad Asim Farid, M Tanveer, Yichang Yan, Shangfeng Du, Zhen-Feng Huang, Muhammad Tahir*, Ji-Jun Zou; A review on fundamentals for designing hydrogen evolution electrocatalyst; Journal of Power Sources 613 (2024) 234856. II. Sana Ullah, Asif Hussain, Muhammad Asim Farid, Faiza Anjum, Roohul Amin, Shangfeng Du, Ji-Jun Zou, Zhen-Feng Huang, Muhammad Tahir*; Sulfurization of Bimetallic (Co and Fe) Oxide and Alloy Decorated on Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes as Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Water Splitting; Heliyon 10 (2024) e32989. III. Hafiz Muhammad Naeem Ullah, Nouraiz Mushtaq, Sajid Ur Rehman, Zeeshan Tariq, SS Ali, Muhammad Tahir, Chuanbo Li, Xiaoming Zhang, Junbai Li; Manganese doped tailored cobalt sulfide as an accelerated catalyst for oxygen evolution reaction; Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 678 (2025) 1087–1095. IV. Sana Ullah, Asif Hussain, Muhammad Asim Farid, Shaheen Irfan, Roohul Amin, Ahmed M Fouda, Atif Nazir, Dehua Hou, Ji-Jun Zou, Shangfeng Du, Muhammad Tahir*; Molybdenum tungsten hydrogen oxide doped with phosphorus for enhanced oxygen/hydrogen evolution reactions; RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 27928. V. Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad Asim Farid, Elvin Aliyev, Zhenfeng Huang, Ji‐Jun Zou, Shangfeng Du; Cobalt Phosphide Decorating Metallic Cobalt with a Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Nano‐Shell Surpasses Platinum Group Metals for Oxygen Electrocatalysis Applications; Battery Energy, 2024; 20240029. VI. Muhammad Abdul Qadeer, Iqra Fareed, Asif Hussain, Muhammad Asim Farid, Sadia Nazir, Faheem K Butt, Ji-Jun Zou, Muhammad Tahir, Shangfeng Du; Nanostructured Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Photocatalytic and Electrochemical Applications; DOI: 10.61558/2993-074X.3498. VII. Jianhua Hou, Haoyi Wang, Rongrong Qin, Qikai Zhang, Di Wu, Zhenhua Hou, Wei Yang, Asif Hussain, Muhammad Tahir, Weiqin Yin, Yongcai Zhang, Xiaozhi Wang; Grinding preparation of 2D/2D g-C3N4/BiOCl with oxygen vacancy heterostructure for improved visible-light-driven photocatalysis; Carbon Research (2024) 3:1, https://doi.org/10.1007/s44246-023-00089-7. VIII. Areej Zubair, Faisal Nawaz, Masood ul Hassan Farooq, Iqra Fareed, Muhammad Danish Khan, Zulfiqar Ali, Mariam Nawaz, Hafiza Sadia Anam, Muhammad Tahir, Faheem K Butt; Novel CoVO/WxOy composites for methylene blue photodegradation and electrocatalytic applications; Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 186 (2025) 109104. IX. Iqra Fareed, Muhammad Danish Khan, Yahya Sandali, Afrah Alzahrani, Tahmina Maqsood, Shania Rehman, Muhammad Bilal, Faheem K Butt, Muhammad Tahir; Unveiling novel SnS2/Zn2V2O7 composite for water splitting and ascorbic acid detection; Surfaces and Interfaces 58 (2025) 105757.

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Project objective

Among the next-generation of energy technologies, fuel cells and air batteries show great potential to meet our growing energy demands. However, their overall efficiency is severely limited by the sluggish oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) at the cathode. So far, Pt-based materials are regarded as the ideal ORR electrocatalyst in practical applications because of the high catalytic activity and stability. However, the scarcity, high cost, and inferior long-term stability of Pt restrict its widespread application. The development of non-platinum group metals (non-PGM) earth-abundant alternatives with high activity and durability has been considered as a crucial task. A class of materials including transition metals and carbon-based compounds have been reported as the alternative catalysts to Pt for ORR, especially in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Among them, the low cost electrocatalysts based on M-N (M, transition metal, such as Co, Fe and Ni) with carbon support (M-N-C) are the most studied. However, the relative low catalytic activity limited by the active cites, low catalyst utilization in practical electrodes because of the thick catalyst layer resulting from the high catalyst loading, and poor stability due to the leaching of transitional metals in real operation conditions are still big challenges in both fuel cells and metal-air batteries. In EcoTrans, the main purpose is to establish new knowledge of the enhancement mechanisms on catalytic activities of novel M-N-C catalysts prepared from acidic treated precursors and surface encapsulation by polymerized ionic liquids (ILs), and then based on the understanding to define the structure and synergistic effects between different elements to guide the development of low cost, highly active M-N-C based catalyst electrodes. The ambitious aim will be achieved with the complementary skills of the ER (N-C and transitional metal electrocatalysts) and supervisors (fuel cell electrodes and ILs).

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